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Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
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Re: Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
#2Bluesky is growing at around 10 accounts/second as of an hour ago.
This has put their iOS app [0] in the top position under free apps, [1] in the USA and UK App Stores. The app is MIT licensed open source.
Others and myself are wondering, is their #1 position in the iOS free app category a first for an open source app? (please note that this is all apps, not just social media)
Re: Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
#3Bluesky is growing at around 10 accounts/second as of an hour ago. This has put their iOS app [0] in the top position under free apps, [1] in the USA and UK App Stores. The app is MIT licensed open source. Others and myself are wondering, is their #1 position in the iOS free app category a first for an open source app? (please note that this is all apps, not just social media) [0] https://github.com/bluesky-social/so…
Yes it is.
Bluesky’s app and services is open source. With plenty of people crossing over to it, reason being because it resembles Twitter pre-Musk.
Mastodon is also open source but never held or got even near the #1 top spot ever, and I don’t think it ever will due to the friction of choosing a server.
People nowadays expect familiarity. ‘Don’t make me think’ that is why people aren’t going to Mastodon.
As for Threads, it isn’t open source and are now introducing platform decaying features like ads which will make the platform worse.
So I can say (at least for now) Bluesky is currently the platform of choice right now.
Re: Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
#4Bluesky is growing at around 10 accounts/second as of an hour ago. This has put their iOS app [0] in the top position under free apps, [1] in the USA and UK App Stores. The app is MIT licensed open source. Others and myself are wondering, is their #1 position in the iOS free app category a first for an open source app? (please note that this is all apps, not just social media) [0] https://github.com/bluesky-social/so…
Yes it is. Bluesky’s app and services is open source. With plenty of people crossing over to it, reason being because it resembles Twitter pre-Musk. Mastodon is also open source but never held or got even near the #1 top spot ever, and I don’t think it ever will due to the friction of choosing a server. People nowadays expect familiarity. ‘Don’t make me think’ that is why people aren’t going to Mastodon. As for Threa…
The crazy thing to me is that it's #1 in the general free app category, "Top Free Apps," not only the social media category.
Re: Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
#5Stretching the definition of “open source” here
Re: Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
#6Stretching the definition of “open source” here
How so? I believe every single line of everything is open source, aside from their server-side Discover feed algo. But in any case, the question is about the app, which is 100% MIT licensed open source code.
Re: Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
#7Bluesky is growing at around 10 accounts/second as of an hour ago. This has put their iOS app [0] in the top position under free apps, [1] in the USA and UK App Stores. The app is MIT licensed open source. Others and myself are wondering, is their #1 position in the iOS free app category a first for an open source app? (please note that this is all apps, not just social media) [0] https://github.com/bluesky-social/so…
Is that a consistent metric of 10 accounts/second? If that's so it's a decent number. Is this a sudden influx of users? Are people fleeing away from Mr. Musk?
Re: Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
#8Bluesky is growing at around 10 accounts/second as of an hour ago. This has put their iOS app [0] in the top position under free apps, [1] in the USA and UK App Stores. The app is MIT licensed open source. Others and myself are wondering, is their #1 position in the iOS free app category a first for an open source app? (please note that this is all apps, not just social media) [0] https://github.com/bluesky-social/so…
user counter:
https://bcounter.nat.vg/
Re: Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
#9Bluesky is growing at around 10 accounts/second as of an hour ago. This has put their iOS app [0] in the top position under free apps, [1] in the USA and UK App Stores. The app is MIT licensed open source. Others and myself are wondering, is their #1 position in the iOS free app category a first for an open source app? (please note that this is all apps, not just social media) [0] https://github.com/bluesky-social/so…
Is that a consistent metric of 10 accounts/second? If that's so it's a decent number. Is this a sudden influx of users? Are people fleeing away from Mr. Musk?
I just did rough math by looking at this counter [0] over the course of 10 minutes. ~10 per second was about 2 hours ago, it was around 4 per second around 10AM Eastern time, yesterday.
Yes on the Musk factor, it would appear. There have been a bunch Bsky mentions in multiple news sources in the US and UK in the last couple days. That appears to driving account creation.
Re: Ask HN: Bluesky is #1 in the U.S. App Store. Is this a first for open source?
#10Bluesky is growing at around 10 accounts/second as of an hour ago. This has put their iOS app [0] in the top position under free apps, [1] in the USA and UK App Stores. The app is MIT licensed open source. Others and myself are wondering, is their #1 position in the iOS free app category a first for an open source app? (please note that this is all apps, not just social media) [0] https://github.com/bluesky-social/so…
Is that a consistent metric of 10 accounts/second? If that's so it's a decent number. Is this a sudden influx of users? Are people fleeing away from Mr. Musk?
I want to know why too. If they’re fleeing musk then why now?